The Complete Works. William Butler Yeats

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       ACT I.

       ACT II

       ACT III

       APPENDIX.

       THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN.

       NOTES

       THE MUSIC FOR USE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THESE PLAYS.

       THE KING’S THRESHOLD.

       ON BAILE’S STRAND. THE FOOL’S SONG.

       ON BAILE’S STRAND.—SONG OF THE WOMEN.

       THE FOOL’S SONG. —II.

       DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —I.

       DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —II.

       DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —III. Farr.

       DEIRDRE. MUSICIANS’ SONG. —III. ALLGOOD.

       SHADOWY WATERS.

       THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “The Airy Bachelor.”

       THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “Johnnie Gibbons.”

       THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS “The Lion shall lose his strength.”

       THE HOUR-GLASS.

       CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN.

       MUSIC FOR LYRICS.

       NOTE BY FLORENCE FARR.

       THE WIND BLOWS OUT OF THE GATES OF THE DAY.

       THE HAPPY TOWNLAND.

       I HAVE DRUNK ALE FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE YOUNG.

       THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS.

       THE HOST OF THE AIR.

       THE SONG OF THE OLD MOTHER.

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN

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      ‘The sorrowful are dumb for thee.’

      Lament of Morion Shehone for Miss Mary Bourke.

      To Maud Gonne.

PERSONS IN THE PLAY

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       Shemus Rua, a peasant

       Teig, his son

       Aleel, a young bard

       Maurteen, a gardener

       The Countess Cathleen

       Oona, her foster-mother

       Maire, wife of Shemus Rua

       Two Demons disguised as merchants

       Musicians

       Peasants, Servants, &c.

       Angelical Beings, Spirits, and Faeries

      The scene is laid in Ireland, and in old times.

THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN.

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ACT I.

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      The cottage of SHEMUS REA. The door into the open air is at right side of room. There is a window at one side of the door, and a little shrine of the Virgin Mother at the other. At the back is a door opening into a bedroom, and at the left side of the room a pantry door. A wood of oak, beech, hazel, and quicken is seen through the window half hidden in vapour and twilight. MAIRE watches TEIG, who fills a pot with water. He stops as if to listen, and spills some of the water.

      MAIRE.

      You are all thumbs.

      TEIG.

      Hear how the dog bays, mother,

      And how the gray hen flutters in the coop.

      Strange things are going up and down the land,

      These famine times: by Tubber-vanach crossroads

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